>I stopped reading this post after you lied about how
>socialism works. Socialism doesn't imply everyone pays
>equally. It implies everyone pays, the rich vastly moreso than
>the poor.

I was discussing the extreme version of socialism, in which there are no rich or poor. Specifically the Marxist ideal of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need". In a pure Marxist economy (never realized anywhere on an appreciable scale), private ownership disappears and the concept of "rich" becomes very fuzzy. You own two cars? The System decides you have more cars than you need and gives one to someone with zero. Obviously, in practice such an economy falls apart as incentives to produce approached zero.

All modern economies are neither pure socialism or pure capitalism. They're just useful constructs.

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